local independent cinema just plays exactly the same films but charges you 20p extra for building something or other plus has worse seats and suffers from the 'middle class chuckles'. don't be so classist.

I'm a huge fan of the coens so I knew I would probably like it. Felt kinda similar to Burn After Reading, in terms of being a bit of silly, deck clearing fun before they hit us with something heavier. I enjoyed it but I have no burning urge to watch it again.

Solid but unspectacular? Starts slow but certainly builds up really well. The child is great and the look of it is great, it even has nipple of the year. But for me it was never firing on all cylinders.

One of the main problems I had with it was the soundtrack. The tracks themselves are great, and it's used especially well in the opening and closing moments. However it was incredibly overbearing for multiple scenes in between. There's one part where it's BLASTING away while a horse is on screen and I mean, just fuck off art film don't give me the ominous brooding horse face. Would have preferred if the use of music was dialled back a lot more, because it took away a lot of the subtlety. If they hadn't got Scott Walker onboard, I wonder if they would have used the soundtrack in the same way? As in, hammering you over the head with it.

All that said, would be really keen to watch the director's next film.

Was a bit confused when R-Pattz appeared at the end, thought it was a weird twist ("Ahh you thought the child would be the dictator but it's actually this other guy!") but later realised it was the little boy grown up and the R-Pattz character was his real dad?

A friend commented after that he didn't like the way it was seemingly based on real events but then at the end just drops it? As in if it was based on say, Hitler, they didn't just portray Hitler ? idk